Moshe Safdie interviews

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Collection Overview ...... 1 Administrative Information ...... 1 Scope and Contents...... 1 Scope and Contents...... 1 Names and Subjects ...... 1 Container Listing ...... Moshe Safdie interviews AAA.safdmosh

Collection Overview

Repository: Archives of American Art

Title: Moshe Safdie interviews

Identifier: AAA.safdmosh

Date: 1992 Feb.1 - Oct. 17

Creator: Safdie, Moshe, 1938- Goodwin, George M. (Interviewer)

Extent: 2 Items (sound cassettes (3 hrs.) : typescript summary (5 p.); analog +)

Language: English .

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information Donated by George M. Goodwin in 1992. Restrictions Untranscribed; use requires an appointment.

Scope and Contents

Interview of Moshe Safdie conducted by George M. Goodwin.

Scope and Contents

Safdie discusses becoming an architect; moving from Israel to Canada at 15, his family background; attending McGill University; the work of Erich Mendelsohn in Palestine; his relationship to Richard Meier; and the work of other architects, including Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, , , R.M. Schindler, and ; how being a Jew is central to his identity and his work; his significant buildings; critics' attitudes; clients' response; and 1992 projects.

Names and Subject Terms

This collection is indexed in the online catalog of the Smithsonian Institution under the following terms:

Subjects: Architects -- Canada -- Interviews Architects -- Israel -- Interviews Architects -- United States -- Interviews Architecture

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Types of Materials: Interviews Sound recordings

Names: Gehry, Frank O., 1929- Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974 Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 Meier, Richard, 1934- Mendelsohn, Erich, 1887-1953 Neutra, Richard Joseph, 1892-1970 Schindler, R. M. (Rudolph M.), 1887-1953 Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959

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